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Wouter Vanden Hove wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I'm looking for more detailed statistics on the growth on wikipedia.
> But more then a few milestones I'm not able to find.
>
> On the mainpage of Wikepedia is it stated: "We started on January 15,
> 2001 and are already working on XXX articles
> <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article> in the
> English version."
> with XXX the number of articles on a given date. But it would be nice
> to see how that evolves over time in a single graph. [yearly, monthly
> ,weekly]
> Is it possible to generate such graphs?
>
Dear Wouter,

Please see http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ASize_of_Wikipedia

Neil

Wouter Vanden Hove wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I'm looking for more detailed statistics on the growth on wikipedia.
> But more then a few milestones I'm not able to find.
>
> On the mainpage of Wikepedia is it stated: "We started on January 15,
> 2001 and are already working on XXX articles
> <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article> in the
> English version."
> with XXX the number of articles on a given date. But it would be nice
> to see how that evolves over time in a single graph. [yearly, monthly
> ,weekly]
> Is it possible to generate such graphs?
>
Dear Wouter,

Please see http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ASize_of_Wikipedia

Neil

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Wouter Vanden Hove wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I'm looking for more detailed statistics on the growth on wikipedia. But
> more then a few milestones I'm not able to find.
>
> On the mainpage of Wikepedia is it stated: "We started on January 15,
> 2001 and are already working on XXX articles
> <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article> in the
> English version."
> with XXX the number of articles on a given date. But it would be nice to
> see how that evolves over time in a single graph. [yearly, monthly ,weekly]
> Is it possible to generate such graphs?

Check out [[Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia]].

Andre Engels

Hi,

Could the stats take into account the size of each article, like the number
of characters that the database contains? It would reflect the amount of
data contributors add each day, whereas some bots once in while "fake" these
existing data by adding massive almost empty articles.

Nicolas


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andre Engels" <engels@uni-koblenz.de>
To: <wikitech-l@wikipedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Stats on growth wikipedia


> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Wouter Vanden Hove wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm looking for more detailed statistics on the growth on wikipedia. But
> > more then a few milestones I'm not able to find.
> >
> > On the mainpage of Wikepedia is it stated: "We started on January 15,
> > 2001 and are already working on XXX articles
> > <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article> in the
> > English version."
> > with XXX the number of articles on a given date. But it would be nice to
> > see how that evolves over time in a single graph. [yearly, monthly
,weekly]
> > Is it possible to generate such graphs?
>
> Check out [[Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia]].
>
> Andre Engels
>
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